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1 month ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Brett Christophers |Adam Tooze |Kate Aronoff |Suzanne Kahn
Market Failure
A discussion between Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze, moderated by Kate Aronoff, about the climate crisis and the limits of capitalism.
, and ▪ February 24, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of Market Failure: The Climate Crisis and the Limits of Capitalism, a conversation held on October 26, 2024, at The New School for Social Research. An audio recording of the conversation is available here.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Suzanne Kahn
When Joe Biden entered office four years ago, FDR comparisons were everywhere. We at the Roosevelt Institute even briefly asked our followers to guess whether a quote belonged to FDR or Biden. As we close out Biden’s one-term presidency, we thought it would be a good moment for a more sober reflection on the comparison. At the start of his term, the analogy between Biden and FDR was almost overused.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Charles Taylor |Suzanne Kahn |Lyra Walsh Fuchs |Nelson Lichtenstein
Legalized Murder
If the motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is the denial of coverage for essential medical services, what does it say that there could be tens of millions of suspects?
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Suzanne Kahn |Alyssa Battistoni |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Aziz Rana
A Man’s Economy
The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed.
▪ December 5, 2024
Election night in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I live, was unseasonably warm, so I “slept” with my windows open. As a result, I came to understand what was happening to the country when I started to hear a fraternity set off fireworks every time another state was called for Donald Trump.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | K. Sabeel Rahman |Felicia Wong |Suzanne Kahn |Mike Konczal
IntroductionIn recent years, the executive branch has become an increasingly central focus for policymaking on both the left and the right. Among progressive advocates, there has been a growing attention to how executive action might help advance progressive priorities, from climate to racial and gender equity to imbalances of economic power, and more.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Suzanne Kahn
At a dinner party a year ago, I argued that if someone under the age of 75 (ahem, 82) were running for president, they would be running on finally fixing long-term care. On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris (59) announced a new plan, Medicare at Home, that will bring long-term care coverage fully into Medicare—notably a benefit most Americans already believe they have.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
isps.yale.edu | Rick Harrison |Suzanne Kahn
When voters consider candidates for November’s presidential and congressional elections, they won’t just be deciding who occupies the White House and which party controls Congress. They will also be shaping the future of U.S. tax and budget policy. Many of the key provisions of the big 2017 tax bill passed by President Donald Trump and a Republican Congress are set to expire next year.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Suzanne Kahn
There’s a lot of talk about threats to and the future of American democracy these days, and for good reason. Our expectations for how core government institutions should function are challenged daily. Sometimes this looks scandalous—like when a Supreme Court justice’s wife turns out to have supported a coup—and sometimes it just looks like the grinding, routine dysfunction of Congress. Somewhere in between are the rulings that came down from the Supreme Court at the start of this summer.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
rooseveltforward.substack.com | Suzanne Kahn
At Roosevelt, we talk a lot about the need for an “industrial strategy for care work”—in fact, we talked about it just a few weeks ago here. We like the industrial strategy framework because it puts care where it should be: in the category of an essential good or service for which the government should have a vested interest in ensuring stable access. “Stable” is key. Stable care sources are essential to the experience of the cared-for and their families.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | K. Sabeel Rahman |Felicia Wong |Suzanne Kahn |Mike Konczal
IntroductionIn 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic raging and the economy in free fall, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan, issuing billions of dollars of emergency economic relief. The bill included, among many other programs, directives for the Treasury Department to provide direct household economic support through a massive new Child Tax Credit.
